Genuinely hilarious comedy

[concorde1]

What are the comedies that warm your heart and make you laugh?

For me I find very few comedies actually funny.

The one that never fails to impress is the series Fawlty Towers. It is a must watch for anyone who has a sense of humour. I own it on Blu-ray as for some reason it's not on iTunes.

I actually find the 3 Johnny English movies extremely funny, although it was more so at a younger age. They can be a bit silly, but at the least good for children I think. And some adults!

I seek more comedy for times of despair.

 

[TSB]

I like to binge Norm Macdonald stuff.

 

[Jimbob54]

Flight of the Conchords.

 

[julian_hughes]

What are the comedies that warm your heart and make you laugh?

For me I find very few comedies actually funny.

The one that never fails to impress is the series Fawlty Towers. It is a must watch for anyone who has a sense of humour. I own it on Blu-ray as for some reason it's not on iTunes.

I actually find the 3 Johnny English movies extremely funny, although it was more so at a younger age. They can be a bit silly, but at the least good for children I think. And some adults!

I seek more comedy for times of despair.

Fawlty Towers is the greatest Brit sitcom. It's still amazing many decades after it was made. Brilliant characters who are like people we've encountered, some appalling, some appealing, in situations we all understand and then it's all stretched so possibility and reality become absurd and you can't see the join. And they did the right thing: made two series of brilliant TV, 6 episodes each, and stopped. They never made a weak episode, never disappointed a viewer.

 

[julian_hughes]

Other great brit comedy series: Hi-de-Hi! Gladys Pugh simmers, pouts and yearns like a golden age Hollywood starlet and every moment is entertaining.

 

[Timcognito]

The film that launched Sean Penn, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. A funny look at Southern California 90s 80s youth and a great look at Phoebe Cates you'll ... (I'll) never forget.

 

[Jimbob54]

The film that launched Sean Penn, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. A funny look at Southern California 90s youth and a great look at Phoebe Gates you'll ... (I'll) never forget.

70s (or very early 80s) youth, surely?

 

[Timcognito]

70s (or very early 80s) youth, surely?

Corrected, Thanks, time flys.

 

[Killingbeans]

I actually find the 3 Johnny English movies extremely funny, although it was more so at a younger age. They can be a bit silly, but at the least good for children I think. And some adults!

You'd might like the old Jacques Tati movies. Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot), My Uncle (Mon oncle), Playtime and Trafik (Trafic).

I'm also really fond of the swedish movies Sällskapsresan and Sällskapsresan II.

The TV series The Good Place is really, really good too.

 

[Jimbob54]

Corrected, Thanks, time flys.

You weren't wrong about the Phoebe Cates scene though.

 

[Killingbeans]

Topper, Bringing Up Baby and Some Like It Hot.

 

[Berwhale]

Father Ted: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111958/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

 

[AdamG]

What are the comedies that warm your heart and make you laugh?

For me I find very few comedies actually funny.

The one that never fails to impress is the series Fawlty Towers. It is a must watch for anyone who has a sense of humour. I own it on Blu-ray as for some reason it's not on iTunes.

I actually find the 3 Johnny English movies extremely funny, although it was more so at a younger age. They can be a bit silly, but at the least good for children I think. And some adults!

I seek more comedy for times of despair.

 

[FrantzM]

You'd might like the old Jacques Tati movies. Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot), My Uncle (Mon oncle), Playtime and Trafik (Trafic).

I'm also really fond of the swedish movies Sällskapsresan and Sällskapsresan II.

The TV series The Good Place is really, really good too.

Will look into Mr Hulot... Heard a lot about it..
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The Good Place occupies a unique place in TV: A sitcom, yes, a sitcom, whose main material is deep and advanced Philosophy and on top of that :
1) Manages to be a hit
2) Manages to make PHILOSPHY looks cool and, yes, useful.

Wow.
One of the two shows series, I have watch more than once. (The second is IMHO, one of the best Sci-Fi series of all time: The Expanse).

Peace.

 

[Killingbeans]

A Fish Called Wanda and Nuns on the Run.

 

[Timcognito]

No one does it better than Buster Keaton

 

[Fahzz]

Trading Places
A Fish Called Wanda
Smart funny films.

 

[julian_hughes]

You'd might like the old Jacques Tati movies. Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot), My Uncle (Mon oncle), Playtime and Trafik (Trafic).

I'm also really fond of the swedish movies Sällskapsresan and Sällskapsresan II.

The TV series The Good Place is really, really good too.

I saw L'Ecole des Facteurs & Jour de Fete in a *very* smoky little cinema with corrugated iron roof in Brittany about 45 years ago. I was about 10 years old with a little French language but these films are visual, there is very little dialogue and what is there is simple and obvious. It was fantastically funny! Finally about 10 or 15 years ago it got a high quality DVD release in France and I was able to buy it on the French Amazon site and get it shipped to UK. It's still brilliant. Genuinely timeless. These days it's available on Amazon UK & US and even on Prime. L'Ecole des Facteurs is a gem, a real piece of magic. It's a pre-war short and after the war they made Jour de Fete which is kind of the longer form culmination of the idea whereas the earlier short is mostly the visual gags. Until you've seen Jacques Tati in a rural postman's uniform complete with satchel dancing in a bar after a quick snifter then you haven't lived!

 

[MAB]

That's Not Funny, That's Sick:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJGmQQXEQhf3TYXtvW8vJX44o_C3SETK2

I have the vinyl, with laminated artwork. One of my favorites.

 

[JustJones]

Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World